New Blog - Head on Over

Heya Emily is well and truly up and running! If you'd like to go have a look here's some links:

Blog: Here
Bloglovin': Here

ADIEU

This is the last post on Em Charlie...

I've loved this blog but I just found it too difficult to sway the focus of my content without disappointing you guys. So I created a new blog that will have beauty related posts but also a combination of

+ Music

+ Art

+ Film

+ Photography 

+ Current Events (Internet Related)

+ Design

Basically it's a celebration and community for creative people (and I consider makeup an art form). If you'd like to have a look, the blog is Heya Emily.

I love you all, Go and comment your blogs on Heya Emily and I'll check them out.

E xx

Beauty Brands I Want To Try

Image Credit: Alannah Loves

I'm pretty sure you all know I'm a beauty addict (duh). But there's a fair few brands I haven't explored and would love to try out. Let me know if you have liked the brands I mention.

A Foundation I'm Loving

There's a new foundation in my life, and I'm loving it. I've given L'Oreal True Match the toss, due to it being to watery, pink based, and tested on animals. In its place is the Tarte Amazonian Clay 12 Hour Full Coverage Foundation (what a mouthful of a name).

Emma Watson - He For She

September 21, 2014. Emma Watson made her He For She speech during the UN Women's campaign. I've always wanted to write about this, and a year on, I think there's no time like the present.

Benefits of Green Tea

My exam block is over, yay! I finally have time to chill out now that it's the holidays. However, constant stressing and studying has taken it's toll, I wasn't sleeping that well and my skin isn't the best either. So, I reached for the secret weapon, Green Tea.

Beauty Inspiration: Hair

        

Part Two! Today it's all about hair, and my number one look at the moment is a textured ponytail. They just look so good. Like last week for beauty, I have a few points about my everyday hairstyle.

1. Keep heat styling to a minimum.

2. Have your hair out of your face.

3. Add a braid to a ponytail for some definition.

4. Use clear hair ties, it makes the look more put together.

5. A little bit of hairspray never goes astray.

6. Go for the messy-chic look.

Beauty Inspiration: Makeup

    

So recently, I've really been looking at my personal style. I figure that I should only buy things/make choices that fit that style, and obviously the place to start is makeup. Makeup is so, so personal and it's amazing that a little bit of 'grown-up-face-painting' can turn a day around.

Priceline Purchases

About a week ago, a pink envelope found itself in my mailbox. Priceline sends out a book of vouchers and a cashback quarterly (maybe annually?) and obviously I had to get over there and pick up a few things I needed.

Goodness Every Morning Moisturiser - Personally I think that if you're only going to have one beauty product, makeup or skincare, make it moisturiser. The Goodness one looked pretty fab, and I love the brand message, no animal testing, bio-degradable packaging and some damn good quality ingredients. So far I've really enjoyed it, it's super lightweight and hydrating ($16.99).

Australis StayPut Eyeliner in Chocolate - Sometimes black is to harsh for eyeliner and you need a softer, more feminine look. I've swapped black for brown for the time being and I like it! Brown liner is better for subtle eye looks, I tried a cat eye but it didn't work too well seeing as it's a pencil formula and not a good deep black. No cat eye doesn't matter, the brown looks so lovely with matte natural shades ($10.45).

Both of the products have worked great since I bought them and for the cheap price, I can definitely see them becoming staples in my beauty routine.

Welcome Back!

Hey there, I'm officially back, yay! I've been away from Em Charlie for 5 and a half weeks, and I've missed blogging quite a lot. So many things have happened since I've been taking a break, I read a few books (Pretty Honest by Sali Hughes is beautiful), performed in my first Shakespeare play, started playing basketball and wrote assignments for senior, sigh. 

Even though I haven't posted anything, I haven't neglected the blog either. I've been working on my photography skills and there's about seven pre-written posts and secret pinterest boards with inspiration and about planning for 30 potential posts in my journal. So, fingers crossed this relaunch goes the distance and I can blog consistently for once!

A Palette I'm Excited About

So I was on the SpaceNK instagram a little while ago and I saw this... Oh My Goodness. This is the preview of this year's holiday palette from Hourglass Cosmetics, a combo of bronzers, blushes and highlighting/finishing powders.

Melbourne Details

Hello Beautiful People! I've just finished a five day trip to Melbourne, and I'm writing this up at the Airport (Shout-out to QANTAS for free wifi). I thought I'd share some of the pictures that I took with you, feel free to Pin them, put them on your Tumblr and enjoy x

Travel Anxiety Tips

Yesterday I jumped on a plane to Melbourne, yay! I'm writing this from my favourite city in the country, and I'm feeling great. 24 hours ago? Not so much... I had a fair bit of travel anxiety, but far less than in the past, so I'm going to share the things I used to make me feel more comfortable up in the air.

Wild Wood by Colin Meloy

First of all, can I just say how happy I am with this photo? Not to spoil the story, but it is focused on light vs darkness, so some symbolic photography is going down.

Wild Wood is the first book in the Wild Wood Chronicles written by Colin Meloy, the lead singer of The Decemberists, a band I really like. I borrowed it from my best-friend Madie's older sister Caitie's friend Felix, so it took a fair amount of effort to get my hands on this one.

To Taylor, Love Em

To Taylor,
I read your tumblr post about a week ago, about Apple Music and the ripple effect it has caused on the company. So, as a young person who'd like to release music someday, I want to say thank you.

The New Em Charlie

Image: Quotev

Check it out everybody! This is the new blog design update I've been thinking about doing for a while now, and I'm gonna have a quick chat about it, along with some other new details you're gonna want to know about.

DIY: INSPIRATION WALL

Hi All! Long time no see, I can't believe it's been three weeks without blogging, it kinda feels like I uploaded my life lately post 3 days (not 3 weeks) ago. But I'm back, and hopefully more regularly.

LIFE LATELY

Hi all! Life has just been extremely hectic lately. All my school work has been due either last week, is due tomorrow or will be due next week, so all of my time has been devoted to my English, Religion, Media and Music assignments. There has been a few things I've been thinking about lately that I thought I should have a chat about.

MAGAZINE LOVE: RENEGADE COLLECTIVE

Personally, I can't stand most magazines. I read so much on twitter and tumblr so I really don't need Famous or Girlfriend to tell me all that, and Vogue's clothing prices make me cry a bit.As a person who wants to pursue something creative, I knew I needed something more from my Sunday reading material (although at the moment it's Romeo and Juliet for Senior English).

TU-LIPS

You may have read my Little Joys post from Thursday, and I have another one for you all, Fresh Flowers. They're just so lovely and seeing as we had some tulips in the house, I thought I'd share my current lip favourite that happens to be a pretty close shade match to tulips.